Pity Quotes

1088 Pity quotes by 756 unique authors

It seems to me, that if people only knew how hard it was for me to endure life, they would find it easier to forgive… — Ivo Andric
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid… — Paulo Coelho
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was… — Gary Paulsen
Did I kill him?â€ I said. â€œNo, miss,â€ said Robert. â€œPity. — Franny Billingsley
...surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.. — William Faulkner
No one really needs me,â€ he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...â€œI do,â€ I say. â€œI need you.â€ He looks upset, takes a… — Suzanne Collins
Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Ã‰owyn! — J.R.R. Tolkien
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. — Charlaine Harris
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's… — Augusten Burroughs
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after allâ€”self-centeredness in its purest form. — Rick Yancey
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people if they are sorry for… — Agatha Christie
Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I… — Brian Jacques
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… — John Barth
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in. — Walter de La Mare
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and… — H. Beam Piper
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! — Thomas Hardy
It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own… — Arthur C. Clarke
... The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant… — Douglas Adams

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